John Harlow / Times of London:
Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss — The 26-year-old billionaire, who is already under fire for his website’s abuse of privacy, now faces ridicule — JUST as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook, is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as a ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac.
Yesterday Facebook announced some new security safeguards that will help protect against phishing hacks, but that’s far too little and too late. Here let me quote both SearchEngineLand’s Danny Sullivan and BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin : “Facebook get …
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts — IDG News Service – Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole.
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Alarming network glitch makes the Internet lose track of who is who on Facebook — AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error — A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place …